‘The Big Bang Theory’ season 9, episode 1 review: Did Leonard and Penny’s wedding go off without a hitch?
“The Big Bang Theory” revealed weeks ago that Leonard and Penny were going to be getting married, and it was also confirmed that it was going to be taking place in Las Vegas. It was an unusual wedding, and something that was really different than what many people were arguably expecting back when these two first got engaged.
On the surface, we liked that it was different! The show already did the big romantic ceremony with Howard and Bernadette, so there was no need to repeat that. With that said, was anyone surprised at just how sad much of this felt? Thanks mostly to the reveal that Leonard actually works with the woman he kissed in Mandy, she was even more furious than she was when she first learned that he kissed her aboard the vessel in the North Sea.
So while they are married, the wedding night was spent apart, and there is no hope for blue skies on the immediate horizon. Do we think they will get past it? Probably, but Leonard’s going to have to work for it and he knows it.
While Leonard at this point realizes his mistake, Sheldon seems to be more or less in the dark. That is why he and Amy are now broken up completely, after he decided to go hang out with Howard and Bernadette while they watched the stream of the wedding … even though he knew she did not want him there. He did his typical shtick of making it all about him, and she was over it. They are kaput, and then of course Stuart tried to hit on her. By the way, Stuart is currently our favorite part of the show. His one-liners are gold, and he has some of that energy of the un-evolved nerd that the show had circa the first two seasons.
We are a little surprised that the premiere was in some ways such a downer, but we did still enjoy some of the one-liners and we’re glad that the Leonard / Penny wedding is done. We just have to figure out how these two men in Leonard and Sheldon are going to prove that they are growing up, something that they have at times been reluctant to do. Grade: B-.
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Lynette Combs
September 22, 2015 @ 3:11 pm
Dear CBS, with regard to Leonard & Penny’s wedding on “Big Bang Theory”: You subtracted romance, sex, and comedy from this event SO successfully, that you could only have made it less exciting by misplacing one of the actual actors. Good job. (Also: The whole ordeal seems to have turned Penny’s hair gray, poor girl.)
Oh — and whose idea was it to “steal” the big “We now pronounce you man & wife” moment, not only from Howard & Raj, who looked away — but from us viewers, who didn’t? Again — good job. Morons.
I’m just sayin’.
Rachel Heller
September 22, 2015 @ 2:47 am
I am glad that Penny and Leonard are married. I didn’t want the wedding to the complete focus of the season. Boring! Shamy is going to be interesting this season. It will be great to see different shades of Sheldon. He needs to woo Amy. They will probably be back together/engaged by the end of the season. Penny and Leonard will be fine too.
kbm
September 22, 2015 @ 12:57 am
the fact of the matter is, Penny & Leonard should not have gotten married. They had many other issues in the relationship before the whole cheating thing was revealed. One major problem was their communications issues. This show really ruined this pairing for me
meka3000
October 3, 2015 @ 4:33 pm
“One major problem was their communications issues”
What makes you think they can’t work that out like they have their other issues, or that ALL successful married couples have their communication issues solved before they get married?